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THE EXPRESS.

-A-'-w^— '..-• GEORGE M. ALLEN, Proprietor.

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For President,

I WILLJAM MCKINLEY of Ohio. For Vice-President, flrtffTTKiTT A. IIOBART of NdW Jersey.

For Governor,

JAMES A. MOUNT. 'for Lieutenant Governor W. S. HAGGARD, fcr Secretary of States

W. D. OWEN. For Stance Auditor, A. C. DAILY. Pur Staite Treasurer*

F. J. SCHOLZ.

2Tor Attorney General. WM. A. KETCHAM. §Vr Reporter Supreme Courts

CHARLES F. EBMY.

For 6uperinteadent Public Instruction, D. M. GEETING. For State Statistician,

SIMEON J. THOMPSON. For Appellate Judges. '/First District—W. D. ROBINSON. Second District—WM. J. HENLEY. Third District—JAMES B. BLACK, fourth District—D. W. COMSTOCK,

FlfHh District—U. Z. WILEY. For Congress, Fifth Distriot, GEORGE W. FAP.IS.

For Judge Circuit Courl^ JAMES E. PIETY.

Foe Prosecutor Forty-third Judicial District. WILLIAM TICHENOR.

For Senator,

JACOB D. EARL* For Representative, ftPILI/IAM H. BERRY. CASSIUS H. MORGAN.

For Jo.lnt Representative, Sullivan, million and Vigo, ORA D. DAVIS,

[ver-

For Coroner,

ALARIC T. PAYNE. For Treasurer, WILTON T. SANFORH

For Sheriff,

JOHN BUTLER For Surveyor

WILLIAM H. HARRia For Assessor, WILLIAM ATHON.

For Commissioner,

First District—THOMAS ADAMb. Second Distriot—ANDREW WISEMAN.

Cold and stark lies the Democratic corse in the state of Stark.

It was quite a oomipiim-enlt tio Gen. Harrison's eipeedh that Tlilliman did no't ithink any oitlh'er ape,etch, was quite up to his mlanlk.

Li Hiung Clhiang will observe t'hia't one party went fo Canltion- for ills oandidaite a-nd the other to P-ekin for lite moneypTank and life slba-te of Oonfuai'an.

When -there were twenty-seven tin plate factories in the United States, in 1892. Mr. Bry,an denied on the floor of congress Ithat there were any in the country. This great industry sprang into existence without any 'help from •him and in s'pifce of his opposition.

'Mr. Bryan wen* into New York to •Imviadie "itlie entemy'is country."- H'is imo-st intense enemies thiere were the unost conspicuous Democrats. He has Anally left the state rwMiMmt c-ap'tur-img an. enemy, -but the enemies mielt at Indianapolis- to make arrangements for capturing hi'm.

"•Wealth,"' sai'd Di Hung .Chang, "is only produced by capital, labor and tla-nid." ""Wealth," says tlhe Boy Orator, 'lean only be produced by st'aimplng machines and priin-tvn.g presses turning out the counters by "vvhiich imen mark the progress of the ooairnrerciial gtaime."

The old China/man is wtiser than the oraitoriteal youtth.

Anthracite coal and coke are now being shipped from Ton-qu-in, France's Asiatic province, to displace Eastern coal on the Paciiflc coast. Bryan was a very ardent advocate of 'free coal, free iron and free wool when in congress. He 'has been consistent in bis efforts to deprive our products and the silver dollar of protection. The products have gone down in price and the dollar will fall 47 cents, if he is successful.

In the miidlst of afoeat'ed political campaign the veterans oif the Gra.nd Army of t'hie Rejputblic have met ait St. Piiul in their thirtieth reunlion. It is an interesting feature of our national life that paitrtolWssm and un.sedtxraal love of cou.nItry iburn. as .bx'igth'tly as ever when Americans meet on rton-flpart'iisan grounds. ,1thie G. A. R. gathering at Sit. Paul is a grand one and a happy one, though (the greatest names of all are no longer cm the roster oif t'he comrades in .the muster.

Ae recently as last Mlaindh Mr. Bryan said, "I aim neither a dDcunocra't, Populist nor Reoxufblidan." Now he is the candidate of the letft wlnig oif the Democratic (party. 'He is a very pretty sort of a poliittfcian, Who posed as a Democrat when he saAv a chance to became a presidential can'dfidalte. Would a true Jefferson-

©oufcl no* frame to pronounce it right ftfhen tfhey laid hoJd on and slew him, aft the fordls of Jordan and there feM ait Chat time of EJphnaim forby and two tfinousand.

Same otf these days the BryianJtes'will toe stealing back to the old Democita'tlSe party axwi the real DeJiiocnats will say unite them, ©ay now 'Ground- money" arwl they w£H reply 'Silver art 16 to 1," •aad get their heads chwpiped off, and (forty and 'trwo thousand posttOffices will Ibe given unitto t^e Gfi'leadltes.

That was wthlait MbKinley said to the Wieet Virgiwiana. That is what he stands tor. (Bryan looks out and sees (chunks|}f silver worth 53 cents, an:d says, "Let us intake dollars cut those and pay our delbte Wi'th «them and build up iwefalth on a foundiaitiion of fraud and repudiation."

In 1893 Senator Rtoger Q. MliLTs of Texas tihougftUt oif th,e oond'Klona beItiWeen 1873 and 1893, and said-:

The wageis of labor are consitanltly 'gertitiinig higher a-nld higher and the •wage-worker is oons'ttanitiy getlting more and mioire Oif the product of his labor in reward Cor h'is tol-1. And this hta.pipy rebuilt ils betlauise hCs work is becoming re^ait'lveiliy ©career and more and more viaiLuiaibfi'e to hia emipioyer. But to secure 'him in the gretalb retwiardte oif Ms toil it is neoessta.Ty absolutely necessary, tha't the sl'Jandiard of the commercial wlorlld, w^rl'i:h is our s'tjandard, •sh'all be preserved. Then he knowb and alii the wiorld knoiWB, t'he vialue of labor 'and the value of the thin©s which it. is to puiidhiase.

In 1896 Senator Mills considered the state of affairs between 1893 and 1896 and natiU'rafl'ly lost hie head and came •out for free coinage.

The grain crop in Iowa is so large this year that the farmers are puzsled what to do with It. Granaries and cribs are 'filled with last year's surplus and the farmers who want to wait until the prices go up are troubled' for storage room.

This suggests several questions. Suppose Illinois or Indiana has a short crap, is, 4t silver or the Iowa crop that makes .prices low? When the surplus from last year shows that more than enough for the demand was raised, and the still bigger crop of '96 is added to it, can the farmer whose crop was winterkilted or spring-flooded blame silver 'for low prices? If the farmer holds his grain for higher prices does he help to reduce the purchasing value of the dollar that will buy'it? Is there any difference between the farmer, the wool grower, the money broker and the investor who hold their stock in trade until prices are better? Why is the farmer who holds 2,000 bushels of wheat until it will cost the consumer more any more virtuous than the man 'who holds $1,000 until it will buy more? Is it silver or the natural law that governs man and trade that affect all these things?

In 1892 Bryan was howling for lower prices, for cheap wool, iron and coal, for •cheap food and clothing for the poor man, in short for free trade. Cheap wool and cheap woolens, cheap carpets, iron and coal, reduced earnings, profits and poor men's wages. The lesson was learned, or ought to have been learned, •that when the employers' mills and factories were idle the workingmen were also idle, and although Mr. Bryan is daily saying that the factories depend upon labor for support, 'he neglects to say that labor depends on the factories and their customers for work.

We .have the low prices that Bryan worked for three years ago, and now he clamors for high prices, for some kind of a change by which high prices can ibe blown out of a hand bellows upon -one product pr class, and low prices upon another product. It was bad enough when he tried to take protection out of the tariff, but it is worse when he tries to take 47 cents out of the dollar and honesty out of the government and people of the United States.

Some partisans who do not like to call names nor to touch upon the personality o»f a candidate are placed by Mr. Bnyan in the horns of a dilemma. To pay flhtat he does mot bel'ieve what he sayis would be to call him a liar and to say thiait he does believe all he says is to pronounce him very incomiuetent jgnoramt for a (pulblic man/ Phe Boston Herald, one of the most able ctf the independent papers, thus exipresses its sense of this peculiar position of Mr. Bryan: •One is pHaced in an ewnibarrassing po-

San or Jiaidksonian Beimoorait ever have said, "I am oeftther a Democrat, Populist ^hen called upon to judge of Mr. nor RttpwJbiiJcan?" JIow Democrats ttha Bryan by the spescihes that he delivers, ha/ve been ca-ught by this adventurer To assume thait he does not bel.eve in, a.rad a silver hook nrustt squirm and *he soundness ctf whart he asserts is to put a construet .on upon his moral chai Wrtthe in their secret souls. atcter Which one would be relucuamt to do, for it se«r.s tanpostalble that he

Mr. Bryan, wfho is fond of scriptural

!,Would

•Illusions, wtiU notice the collection- of |when. fully aware thiat the result of sueGiteaites .t InatawoKs. OI th. GilOif 'millions oif the Aimertcan ptoiple. ead^tes it iwtas related: We much preffer to credit what he has "That the GMeadittes took the fords of to say to errors of the head than to deJordko againist the Elpihraitnites aad it (Pectus at t9ie heant t» believe that fae is •was so, that when any of the fugitives ton^ieatkms, 'bast thait he has not ctf Qphradm said. Let me go over tlhe gras»pey the force and effect of the man ctf Gilead saSd unto hiau, Art ttoou anoveimeat in whtoh he Is engaged. On pn EpihT&Jmlte? fflf he •sa.id, Nay, j.nttie other hand, to atttrtbute the stand Ithen said they unto bten, Say no?S |rthat he has taken on financial questions toa^tih anU he said Sttoibc&>31i

rfor"

knowingly ender into a camjwu'gn

h« 'Sfenorance oif eoontm^c questions is

dollar did not sell

"_,s'

Mr. (Bryan said in congress: "It is imimaterfal in my judgment whether the sheep grower receives any benefit from the tariff or not." He thought the sheep growers were foo insignMeant as a class to tee considered, and yet there are more interested in wool than •t'here are in silver min'ing, and the wool clip will sell for as much as the silver bullion of the mine owners, for whom Bryan has been working for several years.

Keeip the cretfiit of the government •un'taxnished albove all else. Keep the currency up to the highest Stajidlard otf oiYil.ized nations. iNo na'tton of tihe wortd m.us't have •better money thian we have.

And it Is no reflection, either upon our honor or imdeipendenice that we reifuse to a'flapit the. flnancSail policy of China or Mexilco.

son stopped the coinage of dollars

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4,1896.

positively afflnm his entire uafitotems

Dot the

hlffh ofSce for wlhlch he Is noW

a£0uaiifi|n& to stand as a candidate. Stiil, apon one horn or (Jhe oflfher of 'tWi« .lamina ptfMBc opinBon must lodlgimettt."

•Bryan

eahi

Dh4o that the silver

for 1&&S than

dred cents as iong

mint. As

hun

-H

could

to ,t|ie

it was worth

100

twenty-eight years

cent* for

while

silver dollars

werejnot coined after 1806, when

Jeffer

til 1834, when#the Democratic administration put the currency on a gold

sis, it will be seen that the dollar in Sight be worth 100 cents -either when

the

mint

was opened or closed to it and also worth 'less than a dollar sometimes when the mint was opened or closed. If the coinage

$144,000,000 in dollars and

small change, most of which was immediately mel'ted •in'to bullion and not used as money, during eighty-one years, kept up silver, Mr. Bryan ought to explain why the coinage of over $562,000,000, most of which remained in coin, during the last twentyJthree years, did not keep up the price of silver.

If the former average annual coinage of $1,800,000 in silver, which was not Withdrawn from the stock of silver a? it was remelted, kept up silver, then the annual coinage of 524,000,000, which was withdrawn from the stock of stiver, as it was not turned into bullion, ought to have kept up the price of silver, if Bryan is right.

Let

.t .• T-: .A

The attention of the worklngman who •has worked during the last twenty or twenty-five years Is invited to this proposition by Congressman MeCleary: "A day's work of iskille'd labor in 1892 would buy more of any staple ^commodity of human desire, more and •tef clot'hiing. more and better transportation, more and better tools, and machinery, more and better heat, and light, more comforts and luxuries pf every kind, more silver and more gqld than at any -time previous to 1873 jn the history of the world." ...^

It is worth studying. It Is worth while to compare things in one's' owfo experience. Take the wages of 1$9?, or of 1896 with the cloud of 1893 on thern. Compare the prices of clothing, shoes, gas, coal, house hardware, bugglre, wagons, plows, finery for wife atjd children gold and silver watches, clocks, dishes, glassware, lamps and stoves, in 1873 and 189(2 or 1896. They are all lower now and the wages of the men who make'them are higher than In 1873. If a man's wages are higher in any case for the same work, comparing wages in gold in 1873 with today's, he can buy more gold wi'th a day's work than he could in 1873. If he can buy more silver and products, It 4s those that have gon® down and wages that have gone up, with gold between, at or near the stationary point

Gen. Pialmer and Gen. Buckner-jsoire-ly tlhe wiar its over and its issues removed from detoaite and acrimony when •these two a,re placed in- nomination to save the reunited country from a party ,t!halt threatens t!s hlonor, pros.pe.r2ty and peace. The Democrats at Indian,0.1 its readhed an. ideal stage of political principle in arraying themselves for a fighit thait .pmomlieee no sip'Oila, mcUhlimg buit the siaitiisiCaot'ion of duty done and the saving of a name they honor from diagnaxte and aontemiptt:".:

Tlhe aissemfblinig of tlhe Democrat's w!ho have stood so high in their parity at Indlanaiptottis to repuidSait'e the Chicago party, denounce

•platform and

renounce" iitis oandiid'ate was the toost ©tingling rebuke ever administered iit'O a political organization in t'his-j country. The c-haracter, aibilDty and1 COUTaig'e of theise men forbid the doubt of their aid'Jion making a pmoifVund irrrpveissian upon Che Democracy at lairg^I't is an imtpoiliant precedent in American jpolitke anid points to a greater Independence of the American voter h^reafiler. "Regiufarity" and the machine wiiiil ntoft Wind so arWiirarily the parties as they hUve, Cor with this novel departure as a precedent, pttinicularfiiy If its purpose is- accompli shed, dangeirous or suici.'dal policies will again ipreciiffjt'alte btoits and inidepenile.nt organizations.

T'he Indiana pol!is tldkett was nomiina'ted. to defeat Bryan.not to elect McICinley or Palmer, and to avert ruin and disgrace. .•

The DeimocratLic p«anty ha© been split, £-et baxik for many yda&l?'^ISK^fra'ced fcy w'hat lihe OMcago faction has already done. Eoufctileste whaib the Indlanapoiis conveni.i.o'n has d'o.ne will shcirten uhe probation and lead in tt-me to restioration. The new t'icktet can do %a lgrt'atl wo-rk am'ong Democirats in exposing t'he reactionary and revolutionary ch)araicr.er of the Bryan pliat-firun- and

Bryan's foot-netes to it. The beef and ho litest way to beat Bryan is to voue Co*" McKinley, but if a Democrat: will not vote for McKlinley let him vote for Palimer. Some prefer to Va.ke t'htfi'r quinine in capsules to -ing the powder.

8°.YAN'S ANSWER TO PENSIONERS. The old soldiers who allow themselves to be deceived by Mr. fBryan forget* temporarily the old times when -the government had to raise $1,000,000,000 Just to pay t'he soldier®, besides the money: for bounties, rations and clothing. Mr, Bryan said at Buffalo: "They would have us 'believe that these financiers who are Insisting upon a gold standard are Insisting upon It for fear the soldiers drawing a pension may suffer by the abandonment of the gold standard. They forget that those who were soldiers remember the time* that we had during the war. Ihey for. get that these soldiers were old enough to know something of legi5.a:.on. They forget that these soldi?= know th*t the financiers who are i. *y pleading the cause of the soIdOer were making their bonds payable In coin, although they -did not fight themselves."

It must be remembered that Mr. Bryan has bvea promising the farmers and

«f *,1* »,-«**

taxpayers cheaper dollars with which to pay their detfta and taxes, and put down -the 200-cent dollar to 100 cents, but he does not promise the soldiers that fcheir pension dollars shall be any larger than the dollars that men will have to use in cheating their creditors. He cannot, a« there cannot be two kinds of dollars in circulation at one .time.

We hope the soldiers do remember the -legislation by the great congresses of 1861 tf 1806, how many congressmen went to war and how -many soldiers went back 'to congress as Republicans to work for pensions for the veterans against Democratic- opposition. They remember too well what party hampered legislation for the support of the armies In the field. •.

-carry our thoughts back to

those days. There was a debt made by Buchanan's Democratic administration in t-hne of peace. The Lincoln administration at the start 'found the government credit at a discount of 12 per cent after four years of Buchanan and a Democratic tariff for deficit, as usual. There was In the country only $250,000,000 of specie and 1202,000,000 of state bank notes. A large part of the specie was at once swept into the government treasury to pay for the first guns, ammunition and blankets, that »were bought in Europe. Mr. Buchanan's secretary of the war had no't left many supplies Where the North could get at them. Europe said the United States were doomed. The peace-party of the North said the same, and the war party feared as much 12 per cent discount to Start on and the coin in the country ran down to perhaps 1100,000,000 within a

It -is not for little ©ryan to assail any •man of 1861-1865, who stood up for the government and loaned tt money. Every defeat, and we had many, put up the price of. gold and clouded the credit of the government, which was but natural. Not a dollar could have been borrowed without the promise of repayment In good money, and that promise did not look very good after Fredericksburg and Chancellorville. But congress voted and increased the soldiers' pay. to 513 from $8 a month, little enough, but more than England and France Would pay, and enough to take over $1,000,000,0000. When the soldier wanted 'his money in 1861-1865 he did not care what a greenback cost nor how many dollars in gold it would be worth in 1896. If (Bryan had come to them and eaid: "Your brethren and your sons will not pay gold for these greenbacks, as your congress and your Abe L/incoln •promised when they Issued them" if Bryan had told these soldiers that the next generation begrudged' two or three dollars, for the dollar that they needed so badly, they would have shot him, or drummed him out of camp. Mark the contrast, 'the congresses of 1861-1865 raised 'the soldiers' pay 65 per cent to ibring it nearer gold, and began the pensions. Mr. 'Bryan -will substitute 60cen't dollars for 100-cent dollars in pension payments. He says he will substitute a 100-cent dollar for a 200-cent dollar, but what is the difference when •the dollar is to be cut in two, what he calls it? Let Mr. Bryan say, if he can, that the dollar which reduces -taxes will not -reduce pension's.

ANOTHER EXPOSURE OF BRYANISM. The warot of foundation to Mr. Bryan's thenortjeB and alleged facts Wais never -more comjfleltely proved t'han in Ithe eixpeeu-re of hiis stlory of a sohoolima'te relaifeid in a re.een't speech. Mr. •Bryan said in h'is sipeech:

I meit a farime.r over in Illinois. H'e was a schoolmate of m'ine in college, a graduate from college. He is a m«n of exeimipi'ary ha'tliie, hon«5Jt, frugal, amd irodiueliities. He had his three children with h'im in the room, and the (team roiled dbtwn his dheekfe. as he told me thait if conditions remained as they ,were, it was the saddeisit thing he had •to com:emulate th'ait he could not gliive Ko those children the education anid advantages he wanted to. This home is muIltlipTied by thousands and tens of ttlh'outsa-ndls in this land and you tell' me th'a-t it is Just to have a sys/tem of legislation that takes away from ithe parent the posisi'btil&ty of educating his Children as he would, and he is oomipe-nisarted for it by giving money undeserved into tH'e handb of tWotse who by rrac'hinatiion oorner the money market and spend the money by buying foreign tiit'les for t!he&r daughters.

Tlhl.s was sa'd and pathetic and i)t Itouohed the crowd) with a sence of iits own misery, but a cold, unfeeling citizen- of JaclkiaonvtMe, 111., who knoiwis Bry'an and the schoolmate, has presented the Cactus of the case, and, as sual, faxl.6 and Bryan's deductions are aSl awry. Thljs is the explanation by the man from Jacksonville, as written- to t?he Inter-Ocean:

The farmer aittave referred to is the son of a deceased clertgyiman who resided near tihis city, and at his dealth he left. xniuiCh wealth in faTim lands and ready cash "hoajided uip" flor a "rainy day." (Sn the eeJUlomenit of the esttaite thtis "inidiustr'ioute, frugial farmer" received his share of the esitaite, Whttoh atrmo-umted to some thousands of "sound money." (His brothers,, wtho are today among tihe mios't euocaagful farmers, invested their sihare of the esitaite in Morgan counity faiim land. They did not chet^a rainibotvos^ but appftied theunselves to t'he babirts of economy and 1-ndfuii.ry, and they have no teare to eflred, their children are receivting a good education, amd no "tear® roll down their cheetkjs" because tihey cannot give tihe'ir children a college education. Mr. Bryan's friend, t3iii3 Illinoiis flanmer, embarked in a tfandiful chase aJtie.r •wealtlh in the Waat. He bought a coeitly microscope to examine the soil, he believed himsefif a good geologist, and rwlltfe lis in hertlted wwaOtfc we nit to «he silver mining af&tes. but there he tfeil a victim to "bad deals" and one ntitaflcwtouine ftoftowfld anat-her, uwt?l his thousands of "sound money" vanished and he came back a swd^der, but a -wlsar mam. -M'ichae8 J. Clerlhan, 1360 Scnxt-h Eajat sltreeit. Jaefloson-vnie, Dl.

Bryan's Vidrtm and hi* brothers had MfuaQ dbaixxBi and ts the helm of D-roueftv ortadlnaUy be»oi*««i to tbe

Whic3x Bry*n rilMflw. Tl»«r«

men at lc—t nm» LtuWUer* to the one •cttKxjtnaalt^—at least fcw® to s*y th&y have proaipesed. under the present system of currency to one who says he has not. If apCtfan tfcwt th* "Vjatin*" IceJt his money not by aarflftem of legislation but by the machinations otf the men in the silver dtfaltas who are now camflbined in a oontspiracy to beat t'he wibole oountoy out of 47 per c«(t of Hs l»v«»im»eiiit» and money.

GOLD HAS NOT RISfcN BtJT SILVER HAS FALLEN. (Here is scaxas more .Alibgeldlan swash: "Biliver

Ubb

not faiHon. lift co^ts t*h«

same in relation, to property, to t&« tprodlutots of tlhe eaiith and to laibor as St formerly did. It is gold thait has gone up. The purcbaeftnig power of gold has doubled, and our people are obftged ito pay fheLr delbts, prlnc4ipal and interesit, in dtoftraps whiicih as a m&tteT of tract are 200-tcetrt dollars."

Now kt is very easy to test the t^Jath of t*1*® ipropo«ition, says tJhe St. Paul iPioneer-'Press. There ie hiardly an article otf h'uimian conauimipMon., tihe price of whikSi has flaile.n which is not rrodiuc.ed in 1896 w-i'th tlhe aid of improved imaioMnery at a cost Jn htoan laftjor ok from one^hailf to one-sixth what it tost in human laibor to produce in 1872. A given unit of human laibor will thus (produce on the average at least twice as mudh dlotihlfug, shoes, carpets, furna'ttiure, window glass, books, newspapers, 'pictures, katichen utensils, bread stuffs and nearly everything that enters into jihe ordinary oomiforts of life as In 1872. |That Is to say, -the laibor Of cost off (production has been on the average reduced at least oneJhaKf. The labor cost of producing nails ihas been reduced to 'onie-ifilfth of what it was in 1572. The laibor cosit of produiclng steel rails and structural sit eel and' steel faJbrics and: jitniplamenta otf all kinds has been re-|duee-d flve-sHxitihs s'in'oe 1872. One boy With three horees and the improved seifIbttTTdSng harvesters otf the present day can cut and bind ais many acres of •wlheat as five men with four horse® 1872. These are Illusftrations of the enormously inwrmsed e^!ilo^€^lcy, of (human latoor, through its greater command oif the foflcee oif nature, whl'dh ha« enaibled ft ^Lmce 1872 to mulrtply its produces wi'th the aaime expenditure of human energy in nearly every branioh of production. 'Now as the co3t of prodtuctlon, 'measured by its one constant, fundamental and essenitt-aJ factor, human labor, has •thus been reduced to from one-hialf 40 oneJs".X!tih otf what It wae in 1872, it follows thait, given .thte same equation otf suipply and demand, they must have (fallen in price in lliike propor'tlon wihein. measured by a st'atidard of value whiidh .has remained stiafiona-ry duninig. th®t (period. As a mfiutter oif fatft, the fa® of (prJoea corrcisplondis in general almost exlacltty to the depraaeedt' laibor cost oif (prod'uidt'ion. Thereifore the oorreapondenice of the fall of prices wi'th .the laibor tooet otf iprodmcstiion. demonstrates tfhw aipproxlimaite sifalbiiKty of the money atiandiard in whiidh they are measured. iH-ere, then, is the conclusive proof •that gOQd -has reimained' and now 9 ia®!proxtmatiely otf the same vialue in 1896 as In 1872, or ait any rate that it has not sensibly appreciated, and that ft is Isllver whiich has fa'Hen in value and not gto-ld. FVDT itf a gliven amount df si'l-. ver win .puirehase the same number of yardis of cotton cloth, t'he same number Of pairs otf shoes, the same number of poundis of nails or steel rarils In 1896 as 5n 1872, when the laibor coat of producing all these things haive (been reduced

Ifrom one-thaltf to one-£lixtlh then we could have no more cam/plete d«monat'ratiOni tlhat sfilver hlas ^feuBen in value in the tto« general or aivenaige prqij^EtJon. No sophistry, no trifcSke of phrase, no impudence oif sounding iteration, can conceal or obscure thiese simple, conclusive, resistless proolfs tlhlat it is silver wlhlMh. has fallen, niOjt gold .wlhSdh has risen, since 1872.

Child In the Pen!t.enM»py.

Now Orleans, Seipt. 3.—The youngest girt oriiminaa ever senltenced to a penitentiary in this staite wia* HeJttle Reicordi. 9 years old', who was comrMted at Holly Bprfi'nigs, Miss., of tihe mnxrder of her 2-year-oUdl n'ieioe, and was sentenced to the penii'te-ntlary for ten years. There not being a house off detention in this sla,te, her lawyer and Diatx.'dt Attorney Roane agreed n«»t to argue the case and to send' her to the penitentiary, whiere she could be reared' and- oared for.

VOICE OF THE SOPIE.

A Side Stndjr In Silver.

To the ICdltor of The ISxDrcas: Sir:—There is a surfefit in the discussJon of the silver question and »t is only a new .idea tha«t can attract atten'tlon. Many can say that the more they read on it the less they know—at least uncertain are they as to .Uhe effect of free Silver coinage as compared to the present' policy. At the outset the writer woutd say that he is decidediy opposed to albsoluite free coinage, that is, the throwing open at our mint's to the wo-rid. That, he fears, would cause -auch an overturning as to derange tnatle and commerce aiid wcutk our destruction. He doubts whether free coinage of our- mines oivly, -if it could be restricted 10 thiat. w-juid neces®ainly c^use a serious effect but 'he is OfptPlosed to iit because it is be'tUer to leave w&i] enough alone, and it is plain that we have enough currency in our country for a.', purposes, and tha.t our iircuibles aie no't fiyj-m a want of it. But, as said, the addrtfon of some $95,009,000 'tto J7O,000,X)0 per year cou.d no't affect muUttrfs and that, I believe, is as much as our mines can suipply. JKyw persons, 1 think, realize how vast a million '-is. An estimate in regard to another mafiter caused the writer to m/iike a oalou,a 'ion to sfWj.v' how great a mUii'uin reauiy is. If a gireat millionaire shouid slteip into a bank in the morning and say: "Please have a million dollars fixed uip Iter me and I will send a wagon around to get it," the banker could safety reply "it you wiK furnish a counter to hold ft and

00unit

It in a week of six

days, of ten hours each, we will charge you nothing for it, ajid if your wagon haixia a ton for a float you Will need "Owen'ty^ftve of them." For a cownlteir two feet w'de. on which a thousand dol'ta.rw should be placed on each square fo!ot, woud have «to be 500 feet ong, amd there being twenty dollars in a pound, there would be 50.000 pounds of it. fft would be fasrt woric to count 100 each inrinute and pHaoe theim as s:aited, and that WKjuid be 80.000 par day, and sCWteen and two-third's days would be required to coOTHpit'te it. ifow small a mil Mo is—Nvw, EupfPc^iDg that of our frame prodisat $36,000,000 should ibe coined do a'y»r. That a vast stfm, tout is onCy 60 cents apiece for each man, woman and chl-d in the United States. New this money woruld not be given the people, but wou'.d have to be tworfced for Jurft as ever. But sufo»o»ing fl* were given, arould the rich man yith an Sncome of $10,000 a y-mr feel mwA tianpler wHh th® addition to ft dt SO cents, or cowiting five in his fiamlly, at jg no* Or tfee man with a salary of H,000,

*et 11002.50? Or. indeed, the laborer, •who in 300 dagra g«ts $300, to get »08.50? Is it worth whUe to run tne rt«t at upsetting things all arowd to get $2.50 in wlho'.e vear? Or, the amount coined, oould be increased to $70,000,000, then to get $6 a year? But. m£nd you. Wis $5 has to be wortKd for a* ever. This ought to be a good argument against the slWeir craze. Let wet' enough alone.

mrsrw V* **T-»

BimSS PACKAGESr

A X^aagh Is Charcb.

She sat on the sftdlng cushion. The dear, wee woman at fourt Her feet, in their shiny slippens, ^Hung dangling over the floor. She meant to be giood «he Wad prcsnised

And so. w*0h b*r blkMwtt She stared at the meetinghouse windows* And counted the crarwJing fliesi

She looked ftar up tut the preacher, But she thought otf the honey beea Dmning siway at the blossoms

That whitened the cherry trees. She .thought ot a broken bsoket. Where curled in a duskor hestp Three sleek, round puppies, wlrh ttWS* ears,

Lay. snuggled and Cast asleep.

Such sott, warm bodies to cuddly Such queer little hearts to beat. Such swlflt, round tongiues to kiss.

Suah craiwBng, cushiony feet. She could feel in her aiasplng fLngotm The touch of the satin skin And a cold, wet nose explorln#

The dimaks under her chin.

Then a sudden ripple of faughtet? Ran over the parted Hps So quick that she could not calpcfh' IB

With her rosy finger tips. The peopie whispered, "Blews the ••$'*%

As each one vrtaiked from a nap. .t,f But the dear, wee womlan hdd her face, For shame in her mother's lag). —.liondon Amassing Journal.

Major SfoKCnlery has lost a vote in th«{, death at Elyria., O. of a German who

w\uld

lived until Deccmlber. Practical tests have been shown that bOoycle runs easily on the sand o£ the Aifrtcan deserts, and in die time the'3 oamel will foiiHow the horse into obMvtion.

The weather in Chicago is now aool/ enough to teeoipt to hot aim alb. man to come forth from t'he retreat which he sought during the torrid waive to escape lynching.

When the great tnans-Bi^erian railjwayt1 is cocnipleted it will be possible to travel around the world in less thbn forty days. A month's vacation around the globe wlH* be an ewery day affair.

The record of Dr. Ttonner has beea smashed to smithereens by a man a6 lOanticake, Pa., who hlas not taken nourilsfhiment of any kind for nearly fourr months. This is a case of starvation with which the currency has nothing to do. -a

The trials ot the Amerxsan abroad are being gradually lessened. Courts In Parts, haive recently decided that the concierge has no right to open the loggers' letterbf and now a Berlin mlagistrajte declares (. ho'telkeepers liable for valuables stolen' from their lodgers' rooms.

In a recent wreck on the Boston &f Maine railroad every aaoupant of the smoking car was mpre or less Injured* whfie the other pawsengers esoaped wtitihout harm. Here is an Incident' wiliM* will enable the ant!-totoacconists to point a moral and adfem a fale.

A woman interested in knowing bhe kind of songs that school children Uke best) gathered the opinions of 8,000 children. Fnom these she finds uttait grtr-ls, as a rule, like be^t songs of the fireside and,', hwme. Boys prefer those that are pa-1 trlotto in ohlaracter.

Within nine weeflos Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Weaver oif Btookdlale, Gfc.. and their six children have died, and tihey lie side by. side. In the Smyrna cemetery. There i»l not another instance known where an en--tire family has been wHped out in so short a time.

A house to house «yci«-cleanlng and in-. surance cto«Qtf«ny hlas orecenbly been float--ed In London, with a capital of $1,500,000., For an annnHal payment otf a lltttle over! $6 ft wtll send a man to the subscriber's] hoube to teadhi hlta to rtde and to o^eant his wheel. The oomlpany stores the miachine when not in ulse and insures thej cyder for $500 iff death ensues andi $26» against serious acCiderMis while ayeflnn*

One of the curious Inoidents of t'hs-worid-wide sympathy caSed into alctioaj by the St. Louis cyclone is just reported. 1 in the cont-rtJbutlon of $26 by the little] dhMdren oif a native school in Buitoaiw for the rebuilding of the churches] wrecked by the cyclone. The chunch h^dj formerly helped the sc&ool, and In it# cal'airrtlty the children remembered thelip' benefactor.

Thou&h there are 10,000 civilian metmbers of t'he Legion of Hontyr the FrenoK government proposes to increase the nutaiber to 12,000 knights. 2,000 officers, 30® commanders and fifty grand officers. In 1873, when it was found that there were 1 over 20.000 civilians in the order, a law was passed that there should be only one new ajppbi-ntiment for each t/wo deafehb.

Mia my well educated people fall to grasp the difference in s'.ze between England and) the Unllted States. No one thinlca oif going to a mbp to gdt exact figures. Cyclists can comprehena the difference when told that bhe record of John O'Grtoat's to Land's End Is but a little over three days, whlll© tihe record frtomi San Franefsoo to Neiw Yortt fs over for-ty-three days.

The old sHory otf an immense herd of camels roaming about In Arizona has been revised again, and is going the rounds in, the press. The Arizona Bepublican, after saying that tlhe story hats been dentted far yeans. defeHare® that there is not a camel to be found anywhere within the bordetls of Arizona. But it expects to find the story .bob up again, aa usual, next year, except that the hendr of oaimels will be much larger.

Electricity may become a damaging f«tor to the trees of Southern California,. It is found that eieobricfty going through! th® e'arth along electrBc trolley lines docfa consideralble damage to trees. These erver-increasiing earth curren'Os of electricity may aiso aftoot other forenis ot \iegetatole and plant life, where the currents are foo strong. It has been sftated. however, bWat vegetable Me is encouraged by grtjund charged With electric ourrents of the proper strength.

The use of paimipas gnass for political plumes in catijpialgns ciame about in 1882. Mins. H. W. R. Strong, who aw an

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ha/ve been 100 years old had he-j

ranch in the Slan Gabriel vu.Uey. pre-. sen ted a design to the Republicans ana later to the Democrats. The Repulblican emitxlem oonsi^ted of three plumes, red, white and Mue, arranged in the slttipe of a fan. while the Democratic emibCtun was three plumes in their natural color, mounlted on a red stick aind tied wiUh a blue riibbon. The womctn's object was not so maich patriotic as create a TitorKett for the piuimes at home, their lyuropaan sale having fallen off-

Siberfa will soon lose its 'terrors In the popular tfniind. The opening oif the 3lber.an railroad has caused a ruwh oj Kuissan peasants for the plentiful and cheaper lands In Siberia, and whole villages in Russia are being 'left w.thout inhabitants. So far this year 145,000 peasants have emigrated, and in the mrad.e ox May there were 1G.000 persons encanwptd at Tchelyalburek, awa.t'.ng tran-aporta-bion It is reported that t'he government wiK stop banisMng crimlnals toS^na. and wlll use only the sland of Saghaleo^t, the northern .provinces and the .pn.son districts as rersceiptiacles for convicts.

The high hat bill pawsed by the la*t Louisiana legislature went int-o pradtloail operation Monday night with the opening

ofthe

St. Oharlts Theater. The management had prepared for the occasion, hawing a room and attendant ready to take charge -of the *hats and cheick same. There were a large number of -adies pre*- ., ent. Most of these on reading the sign a f'the entrance took off tlhelr headgear and carried it in t'heir -hands. Others waited until Teaching their seats .before removing their hats. The comipi-anioe wtih the 'law was genera., tlhe ushers having only to request t-wo or three ladies to uncov*r. Only soven checks were issued by tlhe attendant of the hat room.

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